The University of Memphis SEG Student Chapter

12/27/2017

NEW DEADLINES!!!

SEG 2018 Student Chapter Reports for competing for Ridge, Summit, and Best Chapter will now be due by March 30, 2018 not May. Reports will be open January 1, 2018.

SLS and SEP applications will only be open January 1 - March 30.

09/08/2017

A large earthquake has hit off the coast of southern Mexico

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

07/17/2017

As the Great American Eclipse approaches in August, I have noticed four misconceptions about it that have emerged on social media. Let's try to clear them up.

04/08/2017

Three earthquakes hit the Philippines today

After being jolted by a magnitude-5.5 tremor on Tuesday, Batangas is once again hit by earthquakes on Saturday afternoon.

03/15/2017

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred on the Missouri/Kentucky border today

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

03/03/2017

Geoscientist phase diagram

02/09/2017

The most active volcano in Cascadia has a lot going on downstairs. Earthquakes are common under Mount St. Helens, but they don’t all originate from tectonic forces, which are the most common culprit for earthquakes globally. Generating and moving melt under a volcano can also cause earthquakes, moti...

12/29/2016

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake near the Nevada-California state line.

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

12/27/2016

The newly released chronostratigraphic chart!

Download the latest version (v2016/12) of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart. The explanatory article was published in September 2013 issue of Epis

12/17/2016

On this day 205 years ago at approximately 2:15 a.m., a magnitude ~7.5 earthquake struck northeast Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel region. It was the first of three main shocks and hundreds of aftershocks in the New Madrid Seismic Zone that winter. Because of the sparse population in the epicentral area at the time, the earthquake caused only slight damage to man-made structures. This would not be the case today if a similar quake was to occur, as about 12 million people now live in the St. Louis–Memphis region. Learn more about this event at http://on.doi.gov/2h4LqEY.

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

12/14/2016

The tiny quakes, 1 to 2 miles beneath the volcano’s surface, do not indicate when the next eruption might be.

12/09/2016

http://www.geologypage.com/2016/09/mars-rover-views-spectacular-layered-rock-formations.html